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Happy Neo Year
Welcome to 2022! I don’t have a ton of writing updates, as I spent most of the last week doing family-related mayhem (including a trip to Fiesta Texas, watching all the old Spider-Man movies with my oldest in prep for the new movie… and throwing in The Matrix b/c I just thought she needed her mind blown) and house projects. Unfortunately, some of the crown molding showed-up damaged, so I had to return it. I’m waiting on more to arrive, leaving the project half-done. And tomorrow I jump back into work (though this email won’t go out until Tuesday). I can’t think of a time I’ve dreaded returning to work so much—there’s just too much packed into the next six months.
I’ve never been much on New Year’s resolutions, but that’s not a statement against resolutions. It is rather a feeling that I can start something new any day. Why wait? That said, one of the sillier things I have missed since COVID began is a chin-up bar. There was one along the route I would run at lunchtime from work. I’d really like to get a chin-up bar again, and not just a doorframe bar, but a full-on bar I can swing on. 😜 So that'll be my silly resolution for 2022--find, or built, a chin-up bar. Yeah, yeah, resolutions should be reading or writing related... but my plans in those regards are already mapped out. You have any good ones?
Writing Updates
Slow week for me writing-wise. I did a little reading (which I find I must carve out time to do these days). I spent some time with a FB ad trainer trying to improve my ad game—I’ve got a “Brand Awareness” ad running now, though I don’t really, truly, understand the point. Yet.
Recognizing that I need help keeping momentum going while I work on Book 4, I hired someone to help create a Street Team and teach me how to use one—Christine Hutton. Again, I don’t know how this will work out—taking chances and learning.
Speaking of Book 4, I started editing it. No title yet… FreeWorld something something. The Price of Freedom? Freedom’s Price? FreeWorld’s Price. 🤷♂️ I’ve got some massive structural edits planned for the middle, so it’ll take some time.
o To-Do list for writing last week:
Email updates- Poke on Amazon hardback creation
- Fix the logo on website & books
o To-Do list for writing this week:
- Email updates
- Continue editing Book 4 (this will be on my to-do for many weeks).
- Poke on Amazon hardback creation
- Fix the logo on website & books (I can see I'm draggin' my feet on this one. There's a lot of work involved in updating books and getting the various formats uploaded to all of the sites.)
Previous Newsletters
- Treasure - 12/22/2021
- Happy Holidays - 12/19/2021
- A week of Promotions - 12/12/2021
- Elf on the Shelf and the Bless-Yous of Winter - 12/05/2021
- Thanks have been given - 11/30/2021
- Reviews, but not bookish reviews... - 11/23/2021
- Lights, digital recording device, action… - 11/16/2021
- Annnnd... cue Christmas! - 11/09/2021
- Book 3 Hype-Up Coming Soon - 11/02/2021
- Losing Faith, a Calyx Twins Story - 10/26/2021 📜 Losing Faith, a Calyx Twins Story.pdf
- New pics for Book 1 - 10/19/2021
- Happy Birthday, Middle Egg - 10/12/2021
- Age Before Duty -10/05/2021 📜 Age-Before-Duty.pdf
- Grundle's Hope - 9/28/2021 📜 Grundle's-Hope.pdf
Steven J Morris
Hi! If you enjoy fantasy with snarky humor, I've got some books for you. My newsletter takes you along the creative journey, and keeps you informed of what's brewing.
A week-and-a-half after retirement, my buddy sent a pic from the gym room at work, asking where I was. My first thought was, "Why are they in the office on a Saturday?" It was Thursday. That shows where my head is. 🙃 I haven't hit a home run in my job search, nor has anything knocked my socks off. I had an opportunity that appealed to me more than others, working at a startup called Tenstorrent. Though I didn't get the job, I realized through the process that I really like the idea of a...
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I would like to lock down my blurb so that I can send it to the cover editor. I took input from April, then made more edits. I’m open to suggestions. Also pretty happy with it. The Mother of Trees withers while the trolls prepare to conquer a crumbling world. The elves’ only hope rests on a desperate plan forged by a fanatical Warder with questionable motives. Elliah, a magicless elf cursed by prophecy, holds the key to either salvation or destruction. Forced into an uneasy alliance with the...
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